The ant and the contact lens..a true story > Brenda was a young woman who was invited to go rock climbing. Although >she was very scared, she went with her group to a tremendous granite >cliff. >In spite of her fear, she put on the gear, took hold of the rope, and >started up the face of that rock. > >Well, she got to a ledge where she could take a breather. As she was >hanging >on there, the safety rope snapped against Brenda's eye and knocked out her >contact lens. Well, here she is, on a rock ledge, with hundreds of feet >below >her and hundreds of feet above her. Of course, she looked and looked and >looked, hoping it had landed on the ledge, but it just wasn't there. >Here she was, far from home, her sight now blurry. She was desperate and >began to get upset, so she prayed to the Lord to help her to find it. >When she got to the top, a friend examined her eye and her clothing for the >lens, but there was no contact lens to be found. She sat down, despondent, >withthe rest of the party, waiting for the rest of them to make it up the >face of the cliff. She looked out across range after range of >mountains, thinking of that verse that says, "The eyes of the Lord run to >and fro >throughout the whole earth." She thought, "Lord, You can see all these >mountains. Please >help me." >Finally, they walked down the trail to the bottom. At the bottom there >was a new party of climbers just starting up the face of the cliff. One of > them shouted out, "Hey, you guys! Anybody lose a contact lens?" >Well, that would be startling enough, but you know why the climber saw >it? An ant was moving slowly across the face of the rock, carrying it on >it's >back. >Brenda told me that her father is a cartoonist. When she told him the >incredible story of the ant, the prayer, and the contact lens, he drew a >picture of an ant lugging that contact lens with the words, "Lord, I >don't know why You want me to carry this thing. I can't eat it, and it's >awfully heavy. But if this is what You want me to do, I'll! carry it for >You." > > I think it would probably do some of us good to occasionally say, "God, I > don't know why you want me to carry this load. I can see no good in it >and it's awfully heavy. But, if you want me to carry it, I will." >God doesn't call the qualified, He qualifies the called. Without Him, I am >nothing, > but with Him...I can do all things through Christ which strengthens me. >(Phil. 4:13) >
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